Liam Gregory

Liam Patrick Gregory, DEng KG KT GCB GCVO OBE PC VC CD DL, 19th Duke of Kent - born 4 March 1981 - is the Lord President of the Privy Council, and Leader of the House of Lords. He is also founder and leader of the Enclave. He is additionally the founder, owner and chief executive of International General Corporation, a major international holding corporation that employs over five million people worldwide. As the Duke of Kent, he holds the second oldest non-royal ducal title in the United Kingdom. He also holds the distinction of being the single wealthiest individual in the world, with a personal wealth of £329 billion, holding an investment and brokerage portfolio valued at an additional £103 billion, and controlling business and industrial assets valued collectively in excess of £5 trillion.

Born in London on 3 May 1981, he grew up primarily at the family estate of Ledford Park near Linton in Maidstone. During the social season, he would accompany his parents to the family townhouse in London, on Chester Square in Belgravia. Privately tutored at home until age 12, he graduated from Eton College in 1999. He would go on to attend Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, graduating with an associates degree in engineering in 2001. Having entered the British Army in 2000, he was granted his commission shortly after completing his associates degree, in late 2001. When the Third World War broke out in August 2002 with the Chinese invasion of Alaska, he was forced to put his further education on hold. He would return to Trinity after leaving the army, acquiring his masters degree in 2011, and his doctorate in 2014.

Lord Gregory spent the first year and a half of the war in Alaska, as part of the British Expeditionary Force sent to assist the United States in the defense of the territory. He was on the front lines, commanding an infantry company, when the Chinese disengaged and withdrew in defeat in March 2004. Injured twice in the Alaskan Campaign, he spent three months in Vancouver before being deployed, again, this time to take part in the planned Shanghai Landings. After six months, the Allied forces broke out and began their multi-pronged inland push. He was part of the final Allied strike on Beijing, when two million soldiers from nineteen nations surrounded the city and several top CCP officials, including General Secretary Xi Jinping, were taken prisoner. He was at a field hospital near the capital recovering from a bullet that had gone through his left arm when a cease fire was declared, and was still there three days later when the Chinese surrender was announced.

He stands 6'6" tall and weighs 241 pounds. His hair is raven-black and his eyes are deep green.  He has been married since 9 May 1999 to the Duchess Lauren Elizabeth, nee Stacy, who was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and whom he initially met in 1997, during a three-month student exchange their junior year.  They corresponded throughout 1998 and into 1999, and Gregory visited her during spring break in March 1999 to ask her if she would marry him at the end of the school year.  She consented, and traveled for a visit to the Gregory estate for the first two weeks in April 1999.  Her parents were flown at the Gregory family's expense to the UK after her first week there for a stay, where they met the viscount and his parents.  They were wed at All Saints Church in Maidstone on 9 May 1999.

The duke and duchess have five children - son Marcus, born 8 January 2000; son Theodore, born 22 March 2001; son Taylor, born 9 July 2002; daughter TBD, born 17 August 2008; and, son TBD, born 30 November 2009. The duke and duchess are also two of the seven godparents of Prince George of Cambridge. He is additionally, at present, patron or president of over ninety society and charity organizations, and is Chancellor of Kings College, London. He is additionally a Fellow of the Cambridge Alumni Society.